Pranav Saji

Pranav Saji is an AI Leader, Tech Entrepreneur, and Full-Stack Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. As Head of AI Security at Symosis Security, he architects generative AI workflows for security analytics and risk scoring, with a career track record of $50M+ in measurable business impact across Fortune 500 enterprises and high-growth startups.

He has founded and led engineering at multiple AI companies and was a Founding Engineer at Flair Labs (Y Combinator F24). He is also a featured speaker and core judge at the USAII Global Hackathon, and writes widely on AI security, large language models, MCP, and building production AI.

Originally from Kerala, India, Pranav earned his MS in Computer Science with a specialization in Artificial Intelligence from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Read more at https://pranav-saji.com.

• Emotion Detection in Speech using CNN
• Developed an algorithm which identified emotions (Happy, sad etc.) from speech signal.
• Leveraged technologies like CNN, Python, MFCC Feature Extraction.
• Housing Price Prediction
• Predicted whether or not to invest in the potential assets based on their actual value predictions.
• Utilized technologies like Python, Regression, RFE.
• Bike Sharing Demand Prediction
• Modeled the demand for shared bikes with the available independent variables.
• Used tools/techniques like Numpy, Pandas, Sklearn, Regression.

• Neural Networks and Deep Learning - Coursera MOOC by deeplearning.ai
• Improving Deep Neural Network: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization - Coursera MOOC by deeplearning.ai
• Structuring Machine Learning Projects - Coursera MOOC by deeplearning.ai
• Introduction to FPGA Design for Embedded Systems - Coursera MOOC by University of Colorado Boulder
• Internetwork Security - NPTEL MOOC by Indian Institute of Technology
• Beginner and Intermediate Pandas Python Library for Data Science - Coursera Project Networks
• Introduction to TensorFlow for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning - Coursera MOOC by deeplearning.ai

• Co-founded of a food chain named Frito!
• Secured 2nd position in state and achieved 104 Olympiad rank in the International Olympiad of Science.
• Secured 6th position in state and achieved 326 Olympiad rank in the International Talent Hunt Olympiad.
• Mentor of MEC LABS, Technical Project Competition.
• Core member of IEEE during Undergraduate studies
• Hosted the Robowar Event held at Govt. Model Engineering College, Kochi

● RF Sensor for Food Adulteration Detection - PIER Letters, 2020

● Emotion Detection in Speech using CNN - IJIRCCE, 2020